Responses.

I greatly enjoyed
your analysis! It was my own search for inner truth thatinspired my quest to
bring Sinistar's philosophy to the public.

Noah Falstein(project leader on
Sinistar)

All I can say
about that is "Yowza!" Like talking to Aristotle
himself.

"Run, coward!"
- Sinistar

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
- Shakespeare

I'd like to call into question your interpretation of the fourth
fragment of Sinistar's philosophical writings: "Run, run,
run!" At first glance, it does indeed appear to be a
restatement of the third fragment, but on closer inspection it
seems to be a refinement or extension of it. While Fragment
3 is addressed specifically to the "coward", Fragment 4
had no specific addressee, and indeed the threefold repetition of
the command suggests a general address to multiple parties.
The number three is significant here, representing (as is often
the case) the cosmos at large as a generalized "third
person".

We already know from
Fragment 3 that Sinistar considers running to be the proper role
of the coward. In fragment 4, he suggests that it is the
proper role for everyone. We are imperfect and weak of
spirit. In our approach to the absolute, there comes a
point for each of us where we must adopt the role of
coward. Call this pessimistic if you must, but it is
consistent with the insistent realism of Sinistar's world view,
especially as expressed in the seventh fragment. The
implications for the corpus of Sinistar's writings as a whole are
enormous: although fragments 1, 2, and 6 express the worthiness
and even the inevitability of our search for truth, fragments 4
and 7 suggest that this endeavor is doomed to failure. Or, to put
it another way, the unattainability of the absolute does not
alter our destiny to pursue it. This is, of course, identical to
the condition of mortality: we are bound to die, but this in no
way invalidates our desire to live.

(By the way, I realize that
I'm making Sinistar sound like a determinist by using words like
"destiny", but I believe his intent is closer to
theHindu notion of "dharma": the proper course of
things, which we may reject at our peril. This fits with
the frequent use of the imperative: Sinistar is trying to tell us
what our dharma is, so we may fulfill it. Whatever Sinistar's
feeling on the free will debate, it doesn't seem to be the the
primary issue addressed in his writings.)